US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on May 27 for "Photovoltaic cell and string and associated methods" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,605, issued on May 27, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Photovoltaic cell and string and associated methods" was invented by Armand Bettinelli (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell includes an edge; an interconnection conductive track extending parallel to the edge to within 1.3 mm; and a plurality of electrodes, called "collection fingers", extending parallel to each other and electrically connected to the interconnection track; the interconnection conductive track including a plurality of spaced-apart closed-contour conductive patterns, each clos...